The Social Democratic Party has pulled out of the Coalition of United Political Parties it had earlier signed on with 39 other political parties with the aim of presenting a consensus candidate for 2019 presidential election.
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The African Democratic Congress has said that it is in full support of the decision of the Coalition of United Political Parties to endorse the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as its joint presidential candidate.
The National Conscience Party says Wednesday’s endorsement of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, by Coalition of United Political Parties as consensus candidate for 2019 election was an affront to the spirit of the alliance.
The Social Democratic Party has distance itself from Wednesday’s endorsement of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, by Coalition of United Political Parties as consensus candidate for 2019 presidential election.
The examination body had on Friday presented the attestation to Buhari amid controversy over the President’s result.
The Coalition of United Political Parties said it had commenced the process of selecting its consensus flagbearer for the 2019 presidential election.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the merger, which came three days after the formation of N-ADC, was the outcome of a meeting of executives of both parties late Friday night, ending at dawn on Saturday, in Abuja.
The Protem National Secretary of People’s Trust, Malam Nasser Kura, in a statement at the end of the CUPP ceremony on Thursday in Abuja, said the swift step of parties in CUPP to set up a formidable structure will help the cause of the opposition in the 2019 elections.
The National Vice Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-South, Emmanuel Ogidi, says Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, is necessary tool to protect democracy principles in the country.
Thirty-nine political parties, including the PDP and Social Democratic Party on July 9, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form the alliance and agreed to produce a common candidate for the presidential election in 2019.
He said the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus, who led a 21-member delegation of the party’s National Working Committee on a courtesy call on Obasanjo, gave the apology
The party in a statement released to the press and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Egbeola Wale Martins, the party lamented that the coalition was executed out of crave for power, hate, selfishness and desperation and not necessarily the need to transform Nigeria into an Eldorado.
Thirty-nine political parties under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties on Monday formed an alliance to synergise and oust President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 election
Bello told newsmen in Lafia on Tuesday, that Buhari came to power on the goodwill of the people, adding that he would still leverage on that given the achievements recorded so far.